Morrell v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2026
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Federal Trade Commission v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. · Sonnenblick-Goldman Corp. v. Nowalk · Cornist v. Richland Parish School Board · Culinary & Hotel Service Workers Union, Local No. 226 v. Haugen
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not affect the legal rights and obligations of the partiee in the substance of the judgment and, therefore, was not appealable). 3While appellants assert that the district court's minutes show that it intended to appoint a receiver, this court has made clear that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an appeal is properly taken from an amended judgment rather than the judgment originally entered depends upon whether the amendment disturbed or revised legal rights and obligations which the prior judgment had plainly and properly settled with finality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.